Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of subverting.
- noun The condition of being subverted.
- noun Obsolete Overthrow or ruin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of subverting or overthrowing, or the state of being overthrown; entire overthrow; utter ruin; destruction.
- noun The cause of overthrow or destruction.
- noun Synonyms Overturning, downfall, demolition. See
subvert .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
subverting or the condition of being subverted - noun a
systematic attempt tooverthrow agovernment by working fromwithin ;undermining
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
- noun the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Early Wednesday, as part of the strike, the lawyers presented a petition to the High Court in Kampala expressing their concern about what they called the subversion of the rule of law.
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The result of this subversion is a surprisingly mature and complex look at gender politics — revealing the power of comics and science fiction to address feminist issues and to reach a younger, predominantly male audience with a enlightening message.
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The result of this subversion is a surprisingly mature and complex look at gender politics — revealing the power of comics and science fiction to address feminist issues and to reach a younger, predominantly male audience with a enlightening message.
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The result of this subversion is a surprisingly mature and complex look at gender politics — revealing the power of comics and science fiction to address feminist issues and to reach a younger, predominantly male audience with a enlightening message.
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Department and the White House always say that there are three obstacles to improving relations between Cuban and the United States, and they are your allegiance to the Soviet Union, what they call subversion in this hemisphere, and the large number of your troops in Africa.
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It's the report that found assurance of future acts of Japanese-American subversion from the "disturbing and confirming" fact that none had yet been taken.
Is That Legal?: A Troubling Partial Rehabilitation of Korematsu v. United States 2008
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It's the report that found assurance of future acts of Japanese-American subversion from the "disturbing and confirming" fact that none had yet been taken.
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It's the report that found assurance of future acts of Japanese-American subversion from the "disturbing and confirming" fact that none had yet been taken.
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MZS again: "Gleefully sensationalistic and paced like an adults-only shoot-'em-up video game, [The Hills Have Eyes 2 is] ultimately less interested in subversion and subtext than in making viewers squirm, shriek and throw up into their popcorn bags."
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But as the Turkish society has been thoroughly Kemalized by the Kemalofascist military, bureaucracy, and judiciary for almost a century, and as it has also been thoroughly Islamized by the their Muslim leaders, with their strong economic base; there is no danger of any form of subversion from the Turkish people against the status quo or any wish for real democracy.
Wake up Kurdistan! 2008
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